Move For Individual NG Land Titles

important statement in Australia’s policy on Papua-New Guinea land tenure jade in the Federal Parliament in April by Territories Minister Paul Hasluck. mowing an earlier statement (“PIM”, April, page 127) Mr. Hasluck said new cprinciples were: (a) The long term objective was to introduce a single system Ji holding administered by the Department of Lands and providing for secure aial registered titles after the Australian system; (b) Only the Administration ae and register land titles; (c) compensation to be provided for native land s;ed to individual title or otherwise acquired by the Administration; (d) for ne being conversion of title from native custom may take place only if most 9e interested in the land consent; (e) the services of native land commissioners msed as a first priority for investigations on land tenure problems and dis .. Hasluck said detailed proposals for these basic principles were being pre- The principles were being adopted so that the natives would make better t the land; so that there would be “more orderly handling” of all land trans ;; and so there would be better use of the natural resources of the Territory.